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SOLDERING IRON. No. 278,932. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED? STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHX GIBBON S, OF EST TROY, NE? YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION HABD- XVARE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SOLDERlNG-IRON.

SPEC IFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,932, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed April 24,1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN GIBBONS, of the village of West Troy, county of Albany, and

State of New York, have invented anew and.

being operated, so that it can be turned around i to reach curved and irregular surfaces.

My invention consists, as will hereinafter be more fully detailed, of the combination, in a 1 soldering implement, of the iron proper constructed with a slot in its heel end; a hinging pin or journal made in said slot and secured therein at right angles to the sides thereof, -a bearing or journal box for said pin, adapted to enter said slot and formed on the inner faces and at the ends of a pair of clutching and pivoted tongs arms, one of the latter being made longerthan the other to attach to the handle and constructed with a pivoted clasp at or near where the handle attaches, and the shorter tang end of the other made with notches to engage with said clasp, and thus hold the handle ends together and the iron proper within its hinged connection.

Accompanying this specification, and forming a part of it, is a sheet of drawings containing two figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by lettenreference used in both figures.

Figure l is a perspective of a soldering-iron containing my invention with the parts shown as disconnected. Fig. 2 shows a perspective of the same device with the parts illustrated as connected.

The factors of which the article is composed are designated by letter-reference and their function explained as follows:

The letter I indicates the iron proper, which, at its heel H, is constructed with the entering 4 5 slot S, and within the latter, at right angles to the sides thereof, is placed the hinging-pin or journal I, said pin being cast with, as a part of, said iron proper or secured within said slot at right angles to the latter, so as to turn with the 0 iron proper.

The letters A and A designate the arms,

which, at D, are constructed with a pivoted tongs-joint, and at their clutching ends B and B are made to have longitudinally an external convex face, V, and an interior concave face, XV, the latter to close around the pin 1? and produce a clutch-bearing for it to turn in, and the exterior convex face to furnish a rounded passage for the interior end, 0-, of the slot S as the iron proper is moved around on the pin l? for adjustment.

The letter 0 indicates a clasp attached to the handle end of the longer arm, A, by means of a pivot, 12. This clasp is provided with a thumb-piece, T, and an engaging-pin, O. The shorter arm, A is constructed with the notches NNfor engagement with the pin 0 on the clasp C when the handle ends of the arms A and A are sprung together.

The attachment L, by which the long arm A" is secured to the handle M, forms a separate invention of mine, and has been made the subj ect of a patent dated July 26, 1881, and numbered 2%,884. This attaclnnent is here com-v bined with the long arm of the device indicated 7 at A and is made in continuity therewith- This attachment consists of the two separated tubular parts a 0, adapted to receive and inclose the end of the handle M intermediately with the keeper ring It, forced along and around said tubular parts to draw them together in a clutching grasp on the handle. From where thus attached the tubular parts are drawn down to a wire form, as indicated at (I, and united to produce the loop 0*, to which the end of the arm A is joined. As thus constructed, the arm A and the attachment L can be made from a single malleable casting and a secure connection produced between the sol dering implement and handle. 0

A soldering implement thus made according to my invention has an iron proper which, when heated for use, is easily adapted to be moved around for adjustment to the surfaces to be united, is simple in its construction, and one which can be produced at little cost, com- )a-ratively.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 18

1. In a soldering-iron, the combination of I the iron properhaving the slot S in its heel and the hinging pin or journal P, arranged in said slot at right angles thereto, with the pivoted tongs-arms A A each constructed at their clutching ends B B with the exterior longitudinally-convex surface, V, and the inner longitudinally-concave surface, V, and said clutching ends being adapted to enter said slot and close around said pin, in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth. I

2. In a soldering implement, the combination of the iron proper having the slot S in its heel and the hinging pin orj ourn al P, arranged in said slot at right angles thereto, with the pivoted tongs-arms A A each constructed at their clutching ends B B with the outwardlyrounded surface V and the inwardly-curved surface XV, the clasp O on the arm A, and the notches N N on the arm A arranged to operate in the manner and for the purposes set forth. V

Signed at Troy, New York, this 21st day of April, 1883, and in the presence of two witnesses, whose names are hereto written.

.JOHN GIBBONS. \Vitnesses: I

GEO. R. MENEDY, Arno): O. 'ANTHo'YY. 

